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Cottage Cheese Pancakes — Pre-Workout Protein
30g of protein in a pancake stack. Cottage cheese, eggs, oats — no flour, no sugar bomb.
Adrian Miller, Soul Food, and the Receipts Behind Barbecue
Adrian Miller is the historian of record on Black American food. His two books — Soul Food and Black Smoke — are the receipts most American barbecue stories leave out.
One-Pot Coconut Lentil Dal
Red lentils, coconut milk, ginger, spinach. One pot, 30 minutes, four nights of dinner.
Michael Twitty and the Cooking Gene — What the South Owes Africa
Michael W. Twitty's The Cooking Gene reframes Southern food as African food on American soil. Here's what that means for the way you cook tonight.
Tamar Adler and the Cuisine of Using Things Up
Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal is a quiet revolution: a book that teaches you to cook from what you already have rather than from a list of new ingredients.
What Cooking at Home Is Actually For
The biggest single thing you can do for your health, your finances, and your sense of having a life is cook at home a few nights a week. Here's why that's true and how to start.
Jessica Harris, High on the Hog, and the African Map of American Food
Jessica B. Harris spent a career mapping how African foodways crossed the Atlantic and rebuilt themselves on American soil. The map is bigger than most cooks realize.
Wild Fermentation vs Cultured Starters — Two Approaches, One Bacterium
Some fermentation uses whatever's on the vegetable. Some uses a starter culture you keep alive between batches. The difference is real, and worth knowing.
Freezer Beef and Black Bean Burritos
Ten burritos in the freezer. Three minutes in a pan from frozen. The 11pm shipping snack.
How to Spot Real Olive Oil — Most Supermarket Bottles Are Adulterated
A multi-year UC Davis study found that the majority of imported "extra virgin" olive oil sold in US supermarkets failed extra-virgin standards. Here's how to find the real thing.
The Immigrant Food Trail — How American Cuisine Got Built
Pizza, bagels, ramen, kimchi, tacos, pho, hummus. American food, as currently configured, is mostly immigrant food two generations in. Here's the chronology.
Hawaiian Poke — The Honest Version, Not the Bowl Trend
Poke is a Native Hawaiian dish older than statehood, older than written contact. The mainland "poke bowl" boom is mostly a different thing. Here's the real one.